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When you finally decide that you’d like to get you family tree down, its going to take a bit of effort to accomplish but there are a few things you can do that will help to speed the process.
First of all , you want to round up everything that you’ve got that might mean something.
Grab photos, documents, old letters, books, bibles, and eve...

Whatever your reason for wanting to trace your Native American ancestry, whether its to become a part of the tribe, or simply to verify that old family story that says you were a direct descendant of a federally recognized Native American tribe, it’s going to start just like any other kind of genealogy. At the beginning.
The beginning of any...

What is genetic genealogy?
How does DNA help when trying to trace your family history?
Who invented it?
Why do you think we need it?
What are its specific uses?
What is the most common use of genetic Genealogy?
Is there a governing body of genetic Genealogy?
What does the future hold for genetic Genealogy?
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How would I start to trace my family tree?
Where do I get a copy of my birth certificate from?
My family are all across the world, where do I start?
My family are from Scotland, where do I start?
My family are from Ireland, where do I start?
My family are Welsh, where do I start?
What do I do if I find skeletons in my family history?
I’ve fo...

What’s the difference between a Family Tree and a Family History?
Do I need to do both?
I know very little about my family where do I start?
When should I start tracing my Family History?
I’m stuck, what should I do?
I only have a nickname of a relative how do I trace them?
How do I trace my surname?
My surname is very unusual, how do ...

What is a family history?
Why would you want to trace your family history?
What will my family history tell me?
Is it useful to help me find out about myself?
When should I start?
What is a family tree?
What is a pedigree?
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What is the civil registration for births, marriages and deaths?
What is the County Record Office?
Are they useful to me?
Where else can I go to search records?
What is a birth certificate?
Where can I obtain a copy?
What should I do if I am adopted?
How do I look for a marriage within my family History?
How do I look for and obtain a copy of Birt...

Many families have rumors of it, have heard it said that their mother or their fathers mother was “full blood” native American of one variety or another.
How do you find out whats real and whats fiction?
Nearly all Native Americans belong to one of five mitochondrial DNA haplogroups: A, B, C, D or X and all of these are widely distribu...